While the rest of TEXTFILES.COM is about archiving and saving the
textfiles of the 1980's, this section is about up-to-date essays
and commentary about that time. We're looking for perspective
here; you were young when these files made their debut, and now
that the digital age is here, what do you look back and feel?

WHAT THIS PAGE IS ABOUT

The purpose of the history section is for people who lived through the
"Golden Age" of BBSes to write about their experience. They can write
about it from the point of view of someone looking back, or they can
try to recreate the feelings they had when they went through it in
childhood (or early adulthood).

A real nice bonus would be if people who wrote some of the textfiles
on this site could cross-reference them and discuss what they were
trying to achieve with the file, or give some context and perspective
to the time the file was written.

Mirror of Apple 2 Memory Page by Evil Exidy (August, 2005)It is rare that I am compelled to mirror an entire page of history, including graphics, but this is one of the best compilations of someone's apple memories I've seen.

I hope to have this section grow to be one of the most complete and
popular parts of this site. If you want to contribute, please don't
hesitate to write to me.

If you wish to have the entire directory conveniently archived and compressed into one file, please download
either history.tar.gz (1328914 bytes) or history.zip (1376926 bytes) instead of all the files separately.